Amazing Grace (2006)

★ 6.9 1h 57m 316 votes IMDb

The true story of William Wilberforce and his courageous quest to end the British slave trade. Along the way, Wilberforce meets intense opposition, but his minister urges him to see the cause through.

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Cast

Ioan Gruffudd
Ioan Gruffudd as William Wilberforce Age 52 · Llwydcoed, Aberdare, Glamorgan, Wales, UK Ioan Gruffudd (Welsh: [ˈjɔan ˈɡrɪfɪð]; /ˈjoʊɑːn ˈɡrɪfɪθ/; born 6 October 1973) is a Welsh-American actor. He is known for his roles in film and television series in the United Kingdom, the United Stat...
Romola Garai
Romola Garai as Barbara Spooner Age 43 · Hong Kong, China Romola Sadie Garai (born 6 August 1982) is an English actress and model. She is known for appearing in the movies Amazing Grace, Atonement, and Glorious 39, and for appearing in the TV movie Emma. ​F...
Benedict Cumberbatch
Benedict Cumberbatch as William Pitt Age 49 · Hammersmith, London, England, UK Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch (born July 19, 1976) is an English actor. Known for his roles on the screen and stage, he has received various accolades throughout his career, including a Primeti...
Albert Finney
Albert Finney as John Newton Died 2019 · Salford, Greater Manchester, England, UK Albert Finney (May 9, 1936 – February 7, 2019) was an English actor. He attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and worked in the theatre before attaining prominence on screen in the early 1960s, d...
Michael Gambon
Michael Gambon as Lord Charles Fox Died 2023 · Cabra, Dublin, Ireland Sir Michael John Gambon (October 19, 1940 – September 27, 2023) was an Irish-English actor. Gambon started his acting career with Laurence Olivier as one of the original members of the Royal National...
Rufus Sewell
Rufus Sewell as Thomas Clarkson Age 58 · Twickenham, England, UK Rufus Frederik Sewell (born 29 October 1967) is an English actor. In film, he has appeared in The Woodlanders, Dangerous Beauty, Dark City, A Knight's Tale, The Illusionist, Tristan and Isolde, and Ma...

Audience Reviews

Andres Gomez 7/10 Oct 21, 2014
The cut is a little bit tangled making hard to follow every hop in time.

Otherwise, script and photography are good and the cast does a good job.
CinemaSerf 6/10 Jan 07, 2023
Aside from a few charismatic scenes from Sir Michael Gambon as the sagely if rather devious Foreign Secretary Lord Edward Fox, the rest of this really struggles to elevate itself from the doldrums of it's rather dreary cast. It possibly doesn't help that much of the drama is set in a wet and gloomy 19th century England but Ioan Gruffudd as the pioneering abolitionist William Wilberforce comes across as weedy and lacklustre. The same can be said for Benedict Cumberbatch's Prime Minister William Pitt and for the most part this felt like a chronological history lesson instead of a drama that enthused me with the controversial issues of a debate that took all but a decade to reach a meaningful parliamentary vote. There is little of substance to what debate there was and whilst the film makes no bones about the position it takes, it does not flesh out the arguments out using rigorous discussion or characterisation to help illustrate just why it all took so long; just why the populace were indifferent to these atrocities. I found that this just overly relied on our own repugnance for the subject matter to bother developing the themes interestingly and provocatively - and I found myself struggling with it as it neared the two hour mark. A serious biopic of this visionary and dedicated man and of his friends and of his opponents would certainly make for compelling viewing - sadly, though, this isn't that!

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